A Quote by Billy Bob Thornton

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

Billy Bob Thornton

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Billy Bob Thornton
American - Actor
Born: August 4, 1955

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

Ricky Gervais

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress.

Troian Bellisario

I don't think it's so important to be a movie director. It's a beautiful profession, but no more than to be a cartoon writer. A very rich cartoon writer. I've done a lot of films, and I know deeply that, in all of cinema, there is no director who is as good as Shakespeare.

Jesus Franco

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Troian Bellisario

I thought I was depressed because I wasn't a writer/director. I moved into a space where I'm a writer/director, my movie is a hit at Sundance, I have a wonderful, loving boyfriend, and wow, I have financial stability. Why can't I get out of bed still?

Justin Simien

The dream, I think, with any project is it starts with an idea, and then somebody writes it, and the writer hopes that a director comes on and makes this piece of material visual, and both the director and writer hope that they can have actors come in and bring something to it that neither one of them expected, elevating it along the way.

Max Greenfield

Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too precious with the words. If you're a writer-director, you can see what you're doing and see your work in action, so I think you can correct it right there and still not compromise yourself.

Dennis Farina

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

Twyla Tharp

I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.

Melissa Leo

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

Peter Morgan

I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky.

Alan Bennett

In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.

Mark Romanek

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

Lena Waithe

There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.